#std disclosure

Source via NY Public Radio

How do you know that? How do you magically know that he would never have told me? Interestingly enough, we never slept together, so *he would've had no reason to tell me*. Also, this was the end of that conversation, he could've been some twit who doesn't even have herpes, and sent that as a joke. This is a harmless exchange on Tinder. This doesn't bother me. At all. Occasionally I'll look back and notice whenever I sleep with someone I'm *always* the first to disclose. Does that bother me, personally? No. Because I know there's a stigma that makes disclosure hard, that's why I try to set an example. Do I find it irritating the likelihood that they are practicing safe sex without disclosing to other partners? Of course. That's why I try to set an example. If more people disclosed on a regular basis more people would become educated and the stigma would become weak. Every time a gifted person does not disclose it sets the rest of us back and removes agency from their partner.